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    Swedish Beauty Get's her tail Waxed

    So a friend of mine from a local racing forum who treats his wife like a queen bought her a beautiful and classy 2016 Volvo XC90 Inscription Series which now has over 50k on the clock. Pearl White with a two tone interior loaded with all the gadgets she really is a beautiful vehicle. When initially approaching me due to time constraints on his end the main goal was to help get the pearl finish to really "POP!" I think mission accomplished but then I'm biased.

    Part of what was holding the vehicle back was his wife has a subscription based car wash plan that lays down fine swirls and loads of wax/sealant that just build up over time. Approaching this daily driver work vehicle within reason we opted for my Premium Enhancement Polish with a traditional Sealant that will carry it well into late fall before he needs to seal it up again for winter.


    Here's a before shot of the B-Pillars and the abuse they have taken.






    After a few passes with some CarPro Essence I was able to fix them right up.








    The paint suffered the same but the big advantage to white and especially a pearl metallic white is it tends to hide swirls really really well. Nonetheless however, those swirls take their toll on the color by making it appear dull and lifeless. With no depth or finish gloss to speak of it's nice, it's clean but it doesn't pop.








    Here are the after images though and now she is fully road-worth for his wife to enjoy. I'm sorry but the pics don't do this justice. White is difficult to capture in mid day sun.









































    My Process on this one:


    • Traditional Wash with Alkaline Soap to strip it
    • Heavy Decontamination with Iron X and Nano Mitt Medium Grade.
    • One Step Approached with Meg's D166
    • Flex Mille with Buff & Shine Maroon light cutting pads
    • Griot's Fine Glass Polish with Orange Griot's pad on Mille for all glass
    • Rain X on Windshield and rear windows
    • Topped with Turtle Wax Shine & Seal Product (first real time using it)
    • Hot Shine Tire Dressing
    • WETS on a bit of trim / rear bumper
    • Meg's D4510 Plastic & Vinyl Coating on Front trim
    • Final wipe down with Wolfgang Uber Rinseless on a 480gsm rag.
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    Snowflake Pearl White CX-30 Turbo Premium Plus(wife)
    2010 Urban Platinum Metallic CRV EX-L & 2014 Mica Black Metallic Toyota Corolla S (kids)

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    Re: Swedish Beauty Get's her tail Waxed

    Beautiful! And just in time for Sweden's Midsummer holidays!

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    Re: Swedish Beauty Get's her tail Waxed

    Crap. Thread title sucked me in........

    Awesome work as always!
    It is no coincidence that man's best friend cannot talk.

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    Re: Swedish Beauty Get's her tail Waxed

    Nice work on that great looking SUV!
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    Re: Swedish Beauty Get's her tail Waxed

    Damn, that came out great, the pearl white looks silver in some of the picsSwedish Beauty Get's her tail Waxed

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    Re: Swedish Beauty Get's her tail Waxed

    Awesome work and write up and pictures!

    Pearl paints is hard to get to pop like a solid or metallic paint. Be cause of of they function with almost like 2 paints in 1. And even more harder to capture it in a photo. But when you go around and have different strength of light on them the effect is beutieful. I almost prefer when they use a different color in the primer layer and the base coat has a color that combo nicely with it. Ad some microflake in the metallic flakes and you can see an awesome effect from the paints. We say here in Sweden that you get more of a shimmer on pearl paints vs gloss on other paints. Looks clean and nice with the white pearl paint. And as you say the polishing clears and clean up the white pearl paint beutieful.

    In the beginning I didn't like the front of the newer Volvos. But it has grown on me and I think they look great now LOL. It's like they have gone back to the basic when they where more sharp edges like the 740-760 and the 940 and also like the older 140 and 240. And still don't looks like a shoebox like some looked like before LOL. Do you have any station wagons of the Volvo V90 in the US? I like the looks from them and it's a big car LOL

    Thanks for shareing your work!

    / Tony

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    Re: Swedish Beauty Get's her tail Waxed

    Sweet work!

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